Excerpt from Louisiana Conservationist, Vol. 10: July-August, 1958 Childhood is the age of magic. Each day is a new world. Each object of nature is a marvel. If we will only permit it, we can live our childhood all over again by sharing their discoveries. But -we must be willing to stop and listen and look. Come when they call us to look at the sunset. Show our appreciation for a bouquet of wilted wildflowers. Help patch up a broken wing. Watch a spider spinning its web. Instead of shuddering over a Wiggly worm or a dusty toad, instead of making a fuss or, worse yet, ignoring them, we should make every effort to have a share in their proud moment of discovery. To children every firefly might be Tinker Bell, every cocoon might well be Sleeping Beauty, every butterfly, a fairy queen. Mice might change into Cinderella's prancing steeds. Stars might be diamonds. Rainbows might even be over a pot of gold. The child's world is the realm of Nature. His favorite stories and poems and songs are always about the birds and the beasts and the flowers and the trees. There is a lot of talk about juvenile delinquency and of parents not being able to understand why their teen-agers have shut them out of their world, but maybe, sometime in the formative years, a mother and a father slammed the door themselves. The door that closed when a mother couldn't understand why a boy had to have a certain puppy. The door that closed when nobody had time to go on a picnic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.